2013 Book list: The 43 books I read this year

Since people ask for recommendations of books: here’s a list of everything I read in 2013 (organized by title). I highly recommend my favorite social media networking site Goodreads as a way to track books you’ve read and want to read. Every month I enter a few books into the Philadelphia Free Library search and file requests for the books to be brought to my local branch for my pick up–so I’m never at a loss of what to read next.

Enjoy!

Books read in 2013

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Charles C. Mann

32 Candles

Ernessa T. Carter

Above World (Above World, #1)

Jenn Reese

Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

Ytasha L. Womack

After Tupac and D Foster

Jacqueline Woodson

Akata Witch (Akata Witch, #1)

Nnedi Okorafor

Alif the Unseen

G. Willow Wilson

American Dervish

Ayad Akhtar

Anatomy of a Disappearance

Hisham Matar

Are You My Mother?

Alison Bechdel

Bottle Rocket Hearts

Zoe Whittall

Brown Girl in the Ring

Nalo Hopkinson

Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement

Kari Dunn Saratovsky

Chaos: The Making of a New Science

James Gleick

Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

Dwight V. Swain

DMZ, Vol. 1: On the Ground

Brian Wood

Drown

Junot Diaz

Exit Wounds

Rutu Modan

Flight Behavior

Barbara Kingsolver

Girlchild

Tupelo Hassman

Habibi

Craig Thompson

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)

J.K. Rowling

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Charles Yu

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

Kiese Laymon

Installation Art in the New Millennium: The Empire of the Senses

Nicolas Oliveira

New Media in Late 20th-Century Art

Michael Rush

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

Slumberland

Paul Beatty

Telegraph Avenue

Michael Chabon

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

The Book of Dead Birds

Gayle Brandeis

The Collected Essex County

Jeff Lemire

The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing

Darina Al-Joundi

The Dew Breaker

Edwidge Danticat

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

The Sandcastle Girls

Chris Bohjalian

The Tao of physics: An exploration of the parallels between modern physics and eastern mysticism